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l‘ho Guinea-low! is a natin of African, nd 1‘ In wmeu’mu called Africun Plltndo or 031’ lulu. They hnve never out- on their wild nature enough to be clue y oonflud. When bred for domestic use 3110, no poonl- larly a farm table fowl, as they «>1de and tholr way to market. The are very profimblo on hrmu, .- ‘hoy \u' in ustrloua forage": nnd woollen. hm! “chosen. “ill destroy mu ingot. th- 1 other poultry combined, and arc not do.- mplhq $3 glowing 05°”: I I ,,,.A _.-n.‘ In Holland thixtyaix dollars yearly Per acre is often paid as rent for land on which cows are kept. Yet the Holland (1 men are supposed to make latge profits. hey hold their cows at a high valuationâ€"an average of $150. In consequence of the generally bad crops and bad weather in England, the farming population is giving more attention to {ruin growing than formerly. ‘ The great preponderance of antimony shows that soft food is better for cattle than is dry feed, and that in the (15in it in no trouble, with plenty of enailage, to keep up a summer flow‘of milk all the yen. Lawns are best made by following nature’s suggestions. If she has made a. ewele so be it. If she has rolled up a mound let it alone. We have only to to. move roughneeeee and inequalities. Variety in feeding, any a the “Poultry Ynxd, " is not only highly appreciated by Bounty. but In the experience of those who we tried this plan, as well u the moat g-on eral system of feeding out whole rain only as a regulu‘ food, it his been foun that the former 1:; much the best. “word he ing do mastic iowls constantly in good tbr it. By variety, we mean both raw and cooked food Where persons have fancy fruit to shi it pays to have the name of. It printed neatfy and laid in the case on top of the fruit. Buyers are pleased with this idea, and it helps to sell in: When large quantities of roots are to be stored, and there is no root cellar. it is far better to coxmgruct‘ pits than to fill the cel- lar of the dwelling house with them: to vitiato the air of the entire house. Sunflowers are used in Wyoming Terri- tory for fuzl. The stalks, when dry ry, make a hot firn, and the seed- heads with the seed in are said to burn better than hard 6031. An acre of snn- flowers will furnish fuel for one stove for a. year. Healthy iewla pick up their food quickly and relish it. ‘Vhen they go at it lazily, pick up a grain or two end then stop, than is something wrong. At this lea-on it in well to examine closely for lice, and if they are found get rid of them. New chestnuts are now to be bad. If on wish to plant some select large once, an if the ground is ready to receive them, lant at once where they are to grow. II p ant- ing, put two nuts in a place, min a light iron bar to make the holes, which I ould ‘be about two or three inches deep. Plant in straight rows three feet apart, each. way, so as to use the cultivator for a few years while the trees are young. If you are not ready to plant them now, pack in sand in earthen vessels and keep in a cool cellar. The New York hay cro promises to be 30, 000 bales short; that 0 ‘he Pacific coast will be larger than usual; the crop in Eng- land is light. \ â€"meat, vegetables, scraps. green food.corn, oats, rice. barley, wheat, pounded bones, etc. Either for laying fowls, for breeders, or for. growing stock, the varied feeding plan is always most beneficial. The Royal Agricultural Socisty has inmod a. new list of prizes for preserved fruits. jams and jellies, made exclusively from fruit of the British Islands. One of the reasons why so many beginner- in poultry mining fail to make poultry pay, is because they crowd 100 fowl: into the space, which half that number require. Foundation walls for barns and Mable- should go down doe on low IO“! thn are not well drained. L any walls 30"). min by failure to go a llttlo deeper for the founda- tion. Au exceptionally cold winter may cause damage from front, and ltla always well to bank up as much as possible. 0n the gran Lagdreth need form non Philadewbia. Penn, they are tho only fowl ko t. boy am given free ocoooo to oil the fie do. . They can bojkept without cont but it would be both; to give them’ou ovouilg meal when young. to enthe than to 061110 np_t_o the roost (kt-night. , , . -.-. ,,A _ -A AI-___A‘_:L.. 'The White Guinea in not a piligpriist, but has but ouu mate. They no a und'am luyera of very fine, rich-flavord egg]. Tho young being hardy and easily niwd, the o ‘93 are set under common hone. It requires a ut four weoks to hatch out the young. The flesh of the‘Whito Gulnea,‘unliko thus of its speckled relations. is ve tender and toothaome. As a table fow they come lure: the wild game birds than any of our domestic fo‘wls. Their Icariel trimmcd heads and beautify! snow white plumage attract many gdmirers. - A vegetable and small fruit rower of Arlington raised on less than ha] an acre, $800 worth of strawberries, halides what were used in the family. The fruit was sold at wholomle rates, and the variation were Sharpies‘s and Belmont. The White Guinea grown rapidly. and for broilers excel young chickens, and farmers that want to rniLe something pretty as well as loathsome would do well to nine 1. flock of these pretly little birds. They will well reward him for the small outlay for__breedlng stock. Mr. Marshall 1’. Wilder tells that at a big reception in London he got into conversation in a corner with a quiet. steady, middle-aged gentlemen; and Mr. Wilder deplored the lack of interest he felt in the crowds of titled people around him. “ I would rather talk to a lain men like younelf." he laid, “in aqu at {as Ion, than to the Duke of chk,who I believe is here.” And then they vent on exchangin o inionl about England and America. It r. llder found later on_ t_hat his quiet companion m the Duke of Tuck hlmiell. Tiny silvar acorns are the none" In bon- net pins. A Very Indirect Compllment. AGRICULTURAL Nous! AGRICULTURAL. VARIETY FOR Fowu. fie thtaninew J Aéox ELmn. singular. The opinion I hold on the subject is universal opinion.” "It may be, but I have my own opinion, nevertheless, and it is that the younger we are the more we know. Whenl was 'a youth, \I-knew twiceas much as my father. Now I am aged and I don’t know lulf as much as my son." _ “ Where are you going, my pretty maid?" “ To theHarvard Annex," Circe said ; “ And, by the way, Mr. Harvard man, J usi try to beat us girls if you can I \Ve’re going to be lawyers. doctors, and bless Your heart, sir, we‘ll soon be running the press." - The senior smiled as he passed her by, And a, semi-triumphant look blazed in his eye. “You may do all you say, my confident maid, And still we men will be far ahead ; For the time you girls will lose your nerve Will be when you try to pitch a curve 1” Judgeâ€"“Thin man is accused of assault- lnu In officer. What‘s the evidence?” Offloa- (n rioved)â€"-“ Look at the mun, you: hour : it had In out. M- on in gen and MI none In broken. Isn‘t that enough to chow that ho assaulted name one!” A traveller who was crossing the Rocky Mountains, overheard a teamster tell the ator'y of a mother bear and her cub, giving what Le called a good example to human mothers in family government. This team- lter was going up the mountain for pine logs, driving a wagon. 0n the top of a large rock h the side of the road was a. young hear. he mother hurl started up the mountain as the team aporouehed. An Austin teacher was instructing his class in natural history. “ To what class of birds does the hawk belong '3" he asked. “To the birds of prey,” was the rep lv. “ And to what class do the quail belong." ' There was s pause. The teacher repeated the quescion: “Where does the quail beloriig?’ “0n to:.st. '" yells the hungry boy at the foot of the class. “ Yes, sir,’ ’said Jones to Smith, " as men grow in age and experience, they advance In newledg e. ” “ I don't think so," replied Smith.“ Don’ 3 think so? That' s rather “ Vhy don't you ask romebody In your neighhcrhood to trust you 2" nid s store- keeper to a stranger who wunted credit. “I’d rather not,” was the reply. “ Bur I don't know you and they do." “ You,” was the rejoinder, " that’s the reason I‘d rather non" "‘The cub looked so cute," said the team- ater, “ lying there with its paws dropping over the edge of the rock, watching the horses as they came up. Presently. the old bear came bounding back to the cub, and, giving it a nudge with her nose, started up the mountain again, expecting the ‘yonng one’ to follow. Young Lady (badly irighwnedFOh. George. there comes papa. George (ditto)â€" Where? where? Young Judyâ€"Hear him flipping along che bell in hie eteckinm feet! Geor e (greetiy relieved ):‘-Be onlmI darling, :30 cu 111. 'George is not afraid of stocking O“. “But the cub made no move. The old bear then came back the second time, and taking up the cub in her arms, gave him several cuffs. Mr. Padupâ€"“Mn. Hoahcroft, this pic positively excites my admiration; Can’t on let me haveawhole one just like is '2" rs. Hushcroitâ€"“ O, M r. Padup, you axe a nd flattercr, I'm afraid.” Mr. Padupâ€" “ No, I’m in earnest about. it. I want the crust to bottom one of the cffioe chairs with.” “This time the cub obeyed orders and followed the old bear in a gallop, up the side of the mountain. “ Oh. yes," fluid the Western man, “ we hko to have-you follows come out to grow up with the gul-oonua Welt. But we draw the line at the men who are driven to settle with us because they are unable or unwilling to settle with .thelr creditors in the But." “ He knew, that cub did. that he’d better mind._fog'_t})§t old bom- wouldn't stan’ any more foolin’.” Bobby was at a neighbor's and in resoonse to a piece of breuu and butter politely laid: " Thank you.” “ That’s right, Bobby," laid the lady. “ I like to bear little boys say“ Thank yru.” " Yen, ma told me I mutt say that if you gave me anything to eat, even if it. wasn’t nothing but bread and butter." Scurd y farmerâ€"‘Van' ter marry my darker sh? \Vall, what hev yo got ter support her with? Imptcunious youthâ€"I admit, sir, that I amlmeagrely supplied with this world's goods; but think of my family connections. ’0 have one of the finest genealogical trees in the country. Sturdy farmerâ€"Huh ! Won’t keep a family in fire-wood mor'n three weeks. An old horseman in the city, who has charge of a large livery stable. states that in all his experience he has never before seen his horece shed their coats so early in the fall or receive in return a new one no heav, so he predicts the “blizzardeet blizzar y kind of awinter.” . A New York couple were recently photo- rap bed while the marriage ceremony was eing e.riormed The photographer pro- bably thong ht that u: would be much easier to get them to "look pleasant" at that moment then at any other period during their married lives. - While this vast gorge has not towering vertical walls, like the true canons of Color- ado and Utah, jts steep, bristling mountain sides of rock often bulge into headlands projecting like buttresses, and these. as a rule, must be pierced by a tunnel. Every- where between them the roadbed is hewn out of rock or lod ed along slopes of sliding fragments upon a utments of massive ma- sonry, after a plan that would have stag er- ed railway men a few decades ago; ut sometin es the promontories are onl a few rods a rt, and are separated by eep gullies. are to each tunnel succeeds a brld e, and to the bridge another tunnel, untifi looking back, you can count six or seven such alternations within sight at once. Far above the tremendous torrents on one side and overshadowed by stony walls and snowy peaks on the other, the traveller is at aloss which to admire the moreâ€"nature's ssv‘agefprce or man’s conquering audacity and 3M". Wl‘l‘ AND WISBOII. The Fraser Canon. Bear Discipline. The popularity of the convenient iur pole- rine is not likely to diminish, judging by the display that is made of them In the shops. The newest models are improved in form, as they are more tightly fitted, setting closely to the lower portion of the arms, and no spreading cape-fashion as formerly. One s ape shows a high Medici collar, which can be turned up becomingly when required to protect the neck and ears. In its natural positionit falls on the shoulders, much in the fashion of a sailor collar, There is a straight 'upright collar of ordinary make going round the throat also. Women who are» not very sensitive to the cold greatly favour this small fur wrap, as, while it enables them to present a seasonable appearance, it also allows the display of a handsome gown be- neath. from the waist down. It should be remembered, however, that cold is as read- ily contracted through an exposure of the arms to the northern blast as through the chest. A chill up the arms will reach the lungs in as short a space of time as by ex- p'oeure of an improperly wrapped throat or c est. ' ‘ ' t The anxiety expressed in some quarters as to whether young Emperor William could be provided with enough peaceful occupation after his return to Berlin was obviously premature, since there was he coronation yet to think of. This ceremony, it is now said, may very likely be fixed far Jan. 18, as that Will be the anniversary of the crowning of Emperor William 1. at Versailles. This would be a felicitous sel- ection, presumably gratifying to the prisms monarch, who looks up to the ways of his grandsire, and certainly pleasing to the German people from its reminder of an event in whish they take a just pride. That coronation of 1871, typical alike of the union of Germany and of a military prowess which could fix the scene of the ceremony ‘in the heart of a conquered enemy’s country, was one of the dramatic pictures of our time. which the comic coronation, with all n.- attcndaut splen ors, can hardly maid It is fortunate for the peace of Europe the. 2 William III. is _quite content to be crowm-d peacefully at home, instead of seeking first another Versailles in which to perform the ceremony. Pink nnd blno wu I French ootnblnntlu in vogue for "china dress [at umnn Rod and grants nnothot French urrnngemont, but if the tone. no not nbwlutsly and extotly right the effect is awful. It is said that the coal mines in the Souria region are so extenalve and so easily wrou ht that the very beet fuel can be had for a el- lar and a half a ton. This ought to boom the country and greatly promote the con- struction of local railways. Colonel Hu hes-Hallett. the Englishman whose reputat on was made so uneavonry by his infamous conduct toward! 3 young in- maln nerd of hi- own. claims that his con- duct has been vindicated by the Qhueen inu- muoli as she has not called upon im to re. sign his commission. Velvet bears the honour of 3 referehce this 19511 beingjz} {gr gyeate; yoguo than plgah. It leems of no use to keep repeating the old law that honesty is the best policy. People who wan. to make a short cut to oomtort won't listen but go on stealing all the same. Yet what could be more foolish than that trick of the Toronto letter carrier, ope niu leuere and extracting rom Ihem at few dale" thereby lasing both position, character and means of livini, v! Decidedly the devil gets his work done at the very low- est prices. Why that man blackened his own character and ruined his :umily for the chance of getting five dollars, which after nllwhe did not get l your, ”5|”: IU ICI- “IV“ECI vuxuu wuau Plufllle Th: latter fabric, though it in not consider- ed beet style, will, however, be quite exten- sively worn, {or the reason than the very moderate sum naked for the finest grades of p_lus_h will tllle sea-on bring it witlniu the {he limits of the average puke. The condition of the veteran John Bright is so serious that his death may be looked for at almost any moment. He has not been able to leave his bed for two weeks, and is gradually growing weaker. His mind re- mains clear. however, and he insists on hav- ing the full report of the Parnell Commission brought to him every day, and he reads it. I What an amount of attention the relation of this colon to the motherland is getting just now. early every debating society attacks it with greater or less accumen. and more or less evident success. The Young Liberals have had very weighty discussions on the subject, and the Osgoede Legal and Litarary Society recently decided that “ the colonies are detrimental to the mother land." A good many in this country seem ll 0 to have the opinion that the nut ep- land is detrimental to at least this colony. Surely this is new under the sun, if any- thing is. A company in London, Eng, undertakes to supply a large sheet of paper folding in envelope form and duly stamped, for a half-penny. And how do they man- age it? Why, in this way. The space not reserved for the letter writer is covered With advertisements, and it is by these that the company reconps itself for its apparent sacrifice in supplying at half-price, all the means of transmitting a letter, which in the ordinary course of things would cost a penny, as well as the stationery used. Amen the autumn mantles is an original one ma e to match a costume.‘ It is of pansy-coloured bengaline, with the shoulder capes to the elbows, made of pansy-coloured matelaeee eilk. The front is shaped like a fitted corsage; the back has three pleat which narrow on each side as they reach the waist, and from there continue to the bottom of the wrap. which falls almost as long as the skirt. Another wrap in plain black velvet has sleeves of the same, covered with a massive network of silk paseementerle and cut jet. This wrap has pannelled fronts, the ends of which diminish to a point, where two heav jet Hun arian spikes are placed. The pane s, as we I as the wrap entire, is lined with satin striped moire. Another autumn garment is a short model ex tending only a few inches beyond the waist! its shape is straight, finely shirred about the nec . and bordered with a pleated ruche of irin ed silk. It has a "bonne iemmea hoo «that is, large and round, made of shot velvet, with a snrah lining in one of the colours of the changeable velvet. A singular crime was recently reported from the south of France. Amuse-girl of seventeen having been punished by her mis- tress for can lessuess toward the child left in her char 9, revenged herself by fastening the chil and herself together with a chain, and then jumping into a river. She was seen to make the leap but before help could be got both girls had sunk and were drowned. ll ISCBLLAXIMDUS. to get here. and I pay as much to support thin poutoflice as any woman of m means in the city. I'm going to get what came for or I’ll raise the biggest. row you ever new. ‘ You’re uâ€"li-ltening to me, are you, young mm. !" "I am. madam. Will you phase tell me I “'Yo‘nng man, I’ve walked eleven blocks 3 5 1 WI“! you will?" An onurprhil Now York knurviowor huly ukod Dr. slung. ubout Whit peoplo would be doin in Bonn, And got in re- turn (at h": p. m and his impudonco quite t numb-r oi wrinkles shout the heavenly wflvfllu. And 311 in that glib, lrroverent way whlob Takings so much :1ch s and which in lo dear .0 him typiml intervicwor'l beam. Hero in u I )ecimeuol the may in which the Braoklyn ‘uboruaclo man apxca‘l himulf :â€" “The Bible says that. in Heaven thou uro many uumiom, which I take no mean- ing moms. There will be the rcoepaiou room. the music room, the family room. 'ho throne room. I suppose altar that the musician hu fund his own iovcd am»: who hue gone befole him he will see Beethoven and Mom.“ sud 'Handel And Menduiuohn an. The painter will' a. a few happy hour. . with his kin an thou go inzo the presence of Rembrana and Raphao! and Rubona and Claude and Titian and a 1 th. other are“ souls or pointer: whose tam w» revere on earth. I an 0 great wits â€"r.nJ the but Christiana I)?“ over {on ad or met are the Christian witsâ€"they WI“ c me into communion wixh the Sidney S.i.hs, the Chrluopher Northa, rho Shnkesprurea, undilo on, with other pen and Womfm. and allyho alien eargyly cxponegta 91‘ um There is a well-known lady in this county who has enjoyed perfect health since the earthquake of two years a o. For several years up to that time her ealth had been declining, and she was then quite feeble. The physicians said the trouble was that she never perepired. When the great earthquake occurred she was considerably frightened end in a few moments the perspiration came freely from‘every pore. She began to im- prove from that moment and soon entirely regained her health. â€" [Washington (0a.) Gazette. “Shakespeare, you know, in his la t will and testatement. dedicated his soul to God through the Ixrd Jesus Christ, and l t: was as thorough a Christian as he was gnu: as a dramatist. WE WILL FIND OUR runs vocniox. “ I could talk to you forever on. the sub ject of heaven. for it is one we all are inter- ested in. My ideas of Heaven are greatly changed. .When I first entered the m‘ni-try I had imagined a poetic heaven : now it has become to me a home circle. We can do there whatever we please ; our nature is enlar ed there; we will enjoy more from! »m a big er state of existmce, and go 0.) 1 :1- proving through eternity. \Ve how an imperfect nature in this world, and here we cannot do as we please. We are bound down; our best moods have no eccp-. no freedom ; we are tied down in a great many instances to uncongenial pursuits to which we have become devoted by accident or the force of circumstances. In heaven all this will be changed. Locomotion will be rapid, and. to use a material idea, we shall be able to fly like the birdâ€"that is, if we want to go anywhere the mere wish will accomplish it. Today you and I have to walk or ride in the cars to the Bridge. or we pass hours in a train on our way to a city in the W's-st. In heaven we would be at our destination in the twinkle of an eye. Space will be‘ anni- hilatedâ€"time will he as x othing. "It. nin'r. hey ! .Perhazw you know more About writing lutmrq than I d-v Perhaps you'ra 55 years nld an ‘1‘ awn unr'ier‘. ona cor- re-pnndonae with frinnm in tho East for thirty-seven yearn. yI-nnu mlr-l You long. log vx‘ tAllc-w- Haired «m ~-!« , if you don’t go fetch the poatmsaber uBut the post oflico policeman gently led her from the building. Very stout old old lady (watching tho lions fem-a" Tour. to me, mister, thut ain't u very big place 0‘ men for such 3 unlmal.” Attendant (with he mutant and most atapendouu uhow of polbeneae on gum)?“ I s'pooe it doe; Iee_m llltg s small ' "\Vhere's the postmaster?" demanded a long, bony woman with a freckled face, who presented herself at one of the livery‘win- down in the postoffioe_t_he othe day. ' All this may be just as well as something else but we tell Telmage that he knows nothing about what he dogmatizas with such glihness and such flippency. It looks very much as if both the interlocutors spoke as if they had their tongues in their cheeks and were quietly smiling in true Roman Augnr fashion. Why will people oontinu~ ally presume to be wise above what is written and fly elf into space as if they were little divinities and diamond editions of omniscienoe‘! Another of the learned pundits puffed away at cigarettes all the time he was lay no down the law want the upper regions and spoke as glibly of God and planets and outlying regions of space as if he knew all about it and had come but re~ cently {mm the very presence chamber of the Almighty. It was all very much in the seine style as was remarked about another New York doctor when he once preached in Toronto. "There were three 'persons," said the somewhat criticsl heater on that occlusion. “ Evidently on very intimate terms â€"â€"God, Moses and Dr. â€"â€"â€"â€"-.” Such dis- 'ainted.declemstory blague is apt to bring oth religion and its Official expounders into contempt. _ Wa'ntcd to.Sce the Postmaster. "I taut. to war. :\ Ietfe" I m ‘ilml this morn- ing to Mm. E 'wurd FaHX Winter-bottom. Newhurypnrh. quox Onunry, Mars. She’s my 00min " “ What do vnu want it for? ’ “I want to write ‘5!) hanto’ on the back. I forgot to write in when I dropp1d it in, and the lo'kr'n imoorfam." . “I can’t do such a “I‘m: as that for you, ma'a_m. _ 1} sides is i-_n’t nm-owyry." “\Vhat is it you wish, madam?" inquired the clerk. "Are you the postmaster ‘2" "No, mo’am, bubâ€"" “Thought you didn't look old enough. It’s the postmaster I want, young man. I don't want no truck with you. ‘Vill you go and tethim I'd like to see him?" " He in buy now, but if you will state your business perhaps I can attend to it. You are kegping other peogle Wantâ€"'1 “000 of men to you, In. 'un, but It' a enough or the lion. ” What will We do In lluwu‘.’ Cured by an Earthquake. The body is the Buy lo or the tabernacle of a soul than shall lvo lorever. ' . . . What do oulhlnk of sluflIng tlm from dunr of nuch a uihllng lull of the most. disgust- ing weeds that you on flml. filling the chim~ any with anull"!~J. (3. Holland No Christian can maintain a clan walk with God, none can keep nilve the hallowed fire of the soul without dui'y kmdling it fired: at the mu. Nona can grow in know- ledge and holiness withnu! abated and regular seasons of prawnâ€"Abbott. A young man who. wiuh any dean. 00mm. declares this ho never iuxdya; mun-y. confesses to a. brutal natun or per. vetted morals. The more of, a mum on income, am we more of unnliuosu you we oapwbi» u u. hibmm' in your wwci‘tiow “uh won“ the banter “Me )‘uu ml! be able m obtain. ' Auy cawud or fortunate foul may brag or vauut, but he only in capmle of diadnin whose conviction that he is stronger than his Enemy rests on grounds of reason â€"â€" Pericles, B. C.‘ 459. T':e wukesfi living cma'ure, by oonocn- tuting his powers on a slr-gle ov‘ject, can accomplish something. 'l'lm strnu cat, by dispersing his over many. uny (a! to ac- oampfish any thing.» C .rlylc. There is namely an occupation, certainly none that demands unity of purpose and regularity of attack, that has, or has not had, its own peculiar kind of song or ac- compiuyiug chant. i‘he onvil, the loom, the dairy, the field, themimrf, the planta- tion, ay. and even thecollic-r‘n dreary world, are ench in themselves an incentive to some kind of music, and their liborers in all parts nuke for themsolyes, if not a pleasing recrea- tion, at any rate a soothing monotony bv crooning, or humming. or chanting, some rhythmical measure. Athenmns' has pre- seuved the Greek names of different songs as sung iy various trades, but unfortun- ately none of the songs th .meelvew. There was one for the corn-grinders, another for wool-workers, another for weavers ; the reapers had their carol, the herds- men a song composed by a Sicilian cox-driver; the kneaders. the bathers, and the galley-rowers were not without their chant. It is still the custom oi Egypt and in Greece to carry on an immense labor by an accompaniment of music and singing; hence the story of Amphion building The- bes with his lyre. In Africa to this day the laborers on the plantations at Yaoorie work to the sound of a di‘um. A strange, repulsive story, comes lrom Paris, to the effect that a boy of fourteen fell in love with a statue of Venue, and when his father had it broken in order to foil the precocious passion, the infatuated Parisian Pygmalion went and hanged him- self. Unless the whole thing in a hoax it goee far to prove that “ calf love ” may be too serious a thing to laugh at. One oom- farting thought, at anyrate, is that the ex- ample of this particular “ calf " is not like- ly to be followed. Over the door of a very ancient house in the famous old Scotch city of Dumfermline, may still be read this significant motto, “ Since word is thrall hut thoot is free Keep weel thy tongue, I counsel thee." which. of course, being interpreted for the benefit of those who know no Scotch, means, “Think what you please, but be careful oi what you let slip from your tongue.” This motto carries one’s thoughte_a_ long way heck fi‘iiinba’Qhefic ,w“ anything [Tut Sale to utter all tl at was in the mind. It is a ood enough motto even for those days. [ord Sackville ml ht have applied it to the case of letter writ ng with considerable advantage to himself. It would have saved him from being recalled in semi-disgrace. Ills punish- ment for leek of judgment has been severe If the mean hounds who tricked him, and prostituted their own honour, and what pre- tensions they may have had to the choreo- ter of entlemen, could be so oummnril dealt w th, a good many of us would thin that more substantial justice had been done. Prices in England in 1788 were, upon an average: Meat, 5d. per lb: baead. 4d. or 5d a quarter!) loaf; eggs, in spring, 16 or 18;“ 4b., fowls, in summer and autumn, 13. (id. a peir: loaf sugar, 7d. per 1b. 3 wages, seven or eight guinea, and£l forces or beer. Wash ing always done at home, and everything ironed, es manvles then cost £25, whereas they can-now- be bought for as many shill- Inga. The aapient warriors who edit the pages of the New York Herald have printed sever- al pages of matter showing how easily Ber- muda and Halifax could be captured in case of war. In the case of Ha ifax it seems there would be two armies of attack. One of them would go by roll, and the other would be thrown across the Bay of Fundy. Dynamite and nitro- elatlne would complete the work of destruct on. Almost all these old Grecian trade songs have their counterpart at the present time in some land, if not universally. The corn- grinder's song is imitated on the Russian wharvea, where the women sing in chorus as they crush the grain for exportation; the weavers in Ayshire. where are still to be found the almost obsolete handJooms, croon some weird Highletfl‘ tune as they sit at their work; the renpers in Russia have their whent chorus and rye chorus, and the haymekers in many countries have special songs of their own.â€"â€"[Nineteen:h Uentury. An old lady friend of ours told as recently that of all the medicines she had ever tried she found none to equal Dr. Carson’s Stom- ach Bitters. and said she, “ I always have to go back to Dr. Carson's Bitters, no matter what other medicine I am induced to try." Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters {or the Stem- ach, Bowels, Liver and Kidneys. Large bottles 60 cents: The editor's drawer culls an interesting bit of biographical information frommhe ex- amination paper, of a small boy who wrote, “ Abrafiam Lincoln was borne in Kentucky in 1492 as the age of seven years.” A regulation has been adopted in the Michigan State prison by which, hereelter, convicts may earn the right to wear plain stray suite instead of the prison stripes. Men who obey the prison rules for- six months ma discard the stripes, but if after that patio they became unruly again, they must: once more don the objectionable clothing. (3001) \" 0RD~ FROM ‘00“ 0001) Prices 3 Century Ago. This Songs of Labor.